The article “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis describes the life of a boy named Ben, who suffered, like many other Jews, due to the Nazis at the time of WW11. Ben Kamm and his family lived during the most horrific and terrifying circumstance that anyone has ever seen, the Holocaust. Ben and his family along with many other Jews were crammed into the ghetto. Thousands of Jews joined a group called the partisans planning on going up against Hitler and the Nazi. The partisans went on many dangerous missions, but finally, after two long years the Germans had finally surrendered.…
H: From escaping death, overcoming a life-threatening disease, and battling insanity to simply surviving the ‘horrendous idea of high school’, survival situations include a wide range of difficulty. To some, the mere act of giving a speech may compare to surviving World War II. B: For Sakura in the film “Alice”, which was written by Higuchi Tachibana, surviving means overcoming the judgements of her prodigy classmates and growing into her talents. In more real-life situations, Aron Ralston in “Trapped” sacrifices his own arm to survive when he is trapped alone in the canyons; Hyeonseo Lee’s life at one point, as she tells in “My Escape from North Korea” was spent trying to escape North Korea with her family.…
Ideology in Anthem According to the Human Rights Watch, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is an unequalled source of human rights violations in the modern world. Lacking almost all basic freedoms, North Korea finds itself as the archetypal oppressive dictatorship. In Rand's novella Anthem, communist and socialist ideas present in North Korea are portrayed as fundamentally backwards and regressive. The ideologies that the Kim family has latched onto in order to justify their tyrannical rule in North Korea are alarmingly similar to the ones adopted by the leaders in Anthem.…
Someone is always watching. Because North Korea has snitches, Chang-bo had to be careful about what he did and what he said. The North Korean culture of spying affected Chang-bo in some ways. One way is that he had to be careful about what he said. If he said a remark about pretty much anything, and someone told on him, he could have a serious punishment.…
However, Hyong-sik and Yong-ch’ae were soon separated when, due to a crime, Yong-ch’ae’s father and older brothers were sent to prison. In order to produce money to free her father and brothers from prison, Yong-ch’ae decided the most useful thing for her to do was to become a…
Along with the Dang family who were friends of the Nguyen’s knew they needed to do something as well. They were just a little better off than the Nguyen’s, as in they had some sort of plan. The Dang’s were taken to Bangkok on an airplane, but Mrs. Dang was left behind because her papers for a passport were lost in the mail. Her family had to leave her behind, and she was very distraught. “My family, my children are gone” (35).…
In the autobiography, In Order to Live, Maryanne Vollers helps Yeonmi Park tell her captivating story of how she risked her life to escape North Korea. When she was just 13 years old, Yeonmi and her mother, Keum, crossed a river that took them to China. Yeonmi’s sister, Eunmi, had traveled to China a few days before, and they hoped to find her once they arrived in China. Unfortunately, they had to leave Yeonmi’s father, Park, back in North Korea due to his untreated cancer. In this inspiring book, I learned the important lessons of how important family is and that true love is the most selfless emotion of all.…
One of them being right before Jong left to go live with her future husband. When she was moving to the Huang’s at the age of 12, her mother told her to obey her new family and not to disgrace her family. Which is what she did throughout the entire story. When she first arrived she did what she was told and nothing else. She hated it and knew she didn’t want to be stuck in this, yet that is what Jong did.…
Brother A was happy when the Americans arrived and attempting to infuse democracy in their culture, which he hoped would help the separation gap between the rich and the poor. Brother B will be the one who despises the American “fascist” movement and is bound to leave the “low-life, uneducated” ways of South Korea in hopes to join the North in their Communist endeavors. This brother has been educated and has not been a part of the family farm because he decided to seek out higher education before the war started making him part of the higher…
Lia’s family has always had little to no power throughout their history. They fled their country looking for safety and better opportunities. Their history, their culture, and their background made them very rigid in exerting their power. Back in Laos, the Lees were free to follow and practice their own culture without any prejudice or judgement from anyone in the community and without any laws prohibiting them from doing so. Their power and freedom were respected back in Laos.…
Hyeonseo worked hard to obtain an accounting qualification and was offered a job from a law firm. Yet, without a degree, she knew she would never be able to move on anything greater resulting in Hyeonseo applying to many universities and studying English for an extra credential. After a phone call from her mom, she was determined to help her mother and brother escaped North Korea. Hyeonseo set on a journey that was painstaking and full of obstacles where they’ll cross the border of North Korea and then travel over Laos into the Vientiane Immigration where they would be transferred to Phonthong Prison, and then turn to the South Korea Embassy seeking asylum. Six months later from the phone call with her mom, Hyeonseo’s mother and brother were defected and able to live freely in South Korea.…
North Korea and China’s society would be categorized as a dystopian society due to its current conditions. In North Korea, the government has mass surveillance, a worshiped figurehead and conformity. Alongside, China’s society is being manipulated by the media, people live under conformity, and are dehumanized. These situations are overpowering a healthy way of living. The way people see things and do things are now manipulated because of the way North Korea and China’s government lead.…
The book is based off of his life growing up and represents how he lived as a young boy. Kim said “All the characters and events described in this book are real, but everything else is fiction”. The book also takes place in the young boys school. There he is under Japanese rule and he and his entire family is forced to lose their Korean names and get Japanese names. The setting of this book shows how the young boys living environment was and the struggle of being Korean and living under Japanese rule, also all the hardships he and his family had to…
Kim Yu-jong wrote his stories in the 1930s when Korea was colonized by Japan. During the colonial period, Japan substantially proceeded colonial predatory behavior and destroyed the former social structure of Korea by advocating capitalism. Moreover, Japan forced Korean to speak in Japanese and even forced them to use Japanese names. Kim Yu-jong’s…
Chun’hyang brought home the social structure found in Korea during that time period. While the other works were informative and gave good glimpses into the societies of that they represented, Chun’hyang was something I feel passionate about. Even with the happy ending, it made me angry. Other works studied touched me in many ways, but this one actually got a major reaction. I found myself actually wanting to yell.…